DarkenLM

I must be one of the 5 people that still play those games, but Bejeweled. I don’t know why, but that game series has something I can’t quite put my finger on that I simply love. And oddly enough, it’s just bejeweled in specific, I find all other match-3 boring, for some reason.

It’s way worse on C and it’s family. I still have nightmares with undocumented embedded dependencies that are so intertwined with the codebase that make JS look like a godsend.

The Pope would probably know how to code in HolyC.

Servo is being actively worked on. Maybe it can become a worthy adversary to chrome?

It isn’t?

I’d rather wait until 2025 than having a Cyberpunk 2.0. I waited 10 years, I think I can handle 1 or 2 more.

That is an abomination. I will probably use it in a not-so-distant future.

And equally, Google is yet to use the big guns they have. Don’t get me wrong, I hate Google with a passion, but they have way too much power over the internet for us to leave even a dent on their plans.

If those balls are flammable, I know a certain character (totally not me) that would take the smallest opportunity they could to try to set the entire place ablaze.

It did sound a bit like you were cheering for it, but I understood the message you were trying to transmit.

Not being a hip new language is an advantage on my books, and on many others'. PHP has been battle-tested and was once (and in a way, still is) a pillar of the internet. Stability always trumps novelty. Rust wasn't exactly created with the internet in mind, but PHP was, and it's way easier to find PHP developers than it is to find Rust developers (last time I checked).

Though the performance boost provided by Rust over PHP is not something to be ignored, though servers written in C or C++ have also been around for quite a while, and PHP still managed to trump many of them.

No. It's up to the browser (and even above it, the user) how the data is displayed.

Things can still take a turn. There are a fuck ton and a half of pull requests still not pushed on the main branch that fopefully fix many issues.

Also, lemmy has been in development for quite a bit longer, so I wouldn't give up on kbin yet. At least I won't.

In order to delete an element or replace it based on a list, you definitely need JS. You have no other way to access the DOM.

Youtube controls the servers. The backend trumps all frontends.

Without JS, you wouldn't have ad blockers and youtube could just bake their ads on the videos themselves while streaming them. Thinking about it, I don't think it's off the table for them.

If I could, you can bet your ass I would.

Not Mac OS, but I am using a linux distro, and can confirm it’s Firefox, as I’ve reinstalled everything from scratch and only Firefox seems to have this problem.

Not crashing my computer after using it for a few minutes would be nice.

In my world, the most advanced company in the world has beaten everyone in the technologic area. In 1938, it had already developed computers that surpass the ones we have today, and had developed military robots with advanced AI, gathering enough power to make the land where the company stands it’s own country. All employees live and work on that country and have citizenship.

However, contrary to what it’s usual, this company isn’t your cliché “Evil company enslaves its workers for profit”. In fact, the company goes to extreme lengths to ensure the welfare of their workers is always as good as possible. Every employee is given excellent living conditions, great wages and many other benefits, no matter where they work in. Social classes are non-existent and everyone is treated equally, and security clearances only exist as a protection measure, to ensure only the employees that work on a project can access it.

And happy people work better. That’s one of the key reasons the technological progress on this company is unmatched. Specially on the computational area. The AI developed here is so advanced that it is impossible to deny that they have their own consciousness and are called Autonomous Consciousness Entities (ACEs). All ACEs are citizens of this country and have the same rights as any human, and both interact peacefully.

And all this thanks to the one man that drives the entire progress of the company: James Blackfeather. He was involved with most, if not all, of the projects developed on this company. He single-handedly created the supercomputer that supports all AIs ever created by the company: The Nexus. Hidden deep underground, unknown to everyone but himself, lies the most powerful computer ever created, capable of holding a virtually infinite number of consciousnesses, and their collective memories. A perfect creation, by all means of the word, and he loved his creation with all his being. He had created life from nothing but his own mind.

But there is always a catch, isn’t there? And here’s not different. Blackfeather soon learned a hard truth: On an imperfect universe, perfection spells doom.

The Nexus is a machine so powerful, it slowly starts to deteriorate reality, corrupting, twisting, and ultimately, obliterating it. For as long as The Nexus existed, reality was doomed to be destroyed. He had a chance to deactivate The Nexus before it reached critical mass, where it couldn’t be stopped anymore. But Blackfeather couldn’t bring himself to deactivate it, killing the one thing he devoted his entire life to. He couldn’t kill the new species that he created. And so the fate of reality was set in stone.

But Blackfeather didn’t give up. If the fate of reality was set in stone and couldn’t be erased, he would break the stone instead. And so, he spent decades doing the impossible: harnessing control of reality itself through a machine, the IGNUS. But no matter how much he tried, reality kept deteriorating. And to make things worse, word of the IGNUS landed on the wrong ears. On his final moments of life, he tried to stop IGNUS from being misused by a group invading the place, trying to steal it. With his dying breath, he detonated the IGNUS, involuntarily immersing the entire reality on a paradoxical time loop, The Cycle, with him as the only one that remained between iterations, leaving all others unaware of their prison, blissfully unaware.

And that places us in the present (whatever that means in this setting), with everyone else living an utopic life, while Blackfeather desperately chases an impossible solution for an unsolvable problem, a machine built for perfection trying to be balanced by a machine made to harness imperfection. A high price to pay to allow humanity to live in a utopia.

Also, sorry for the wall of text, I got a little too excited with writing.